ART

APPRECIATION
Learning Outcomes
×Define Art based on personal experiences
×Explain the role of humanities
×Clarify misconceptions about art
×Identify art from nature
×Characterize the assumptions of arts

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WHY STUDY THE
HUMANITIES!

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hUMaNiTieS
×study of how people process and document the
human experience
×Humanities refers to the arts
×A versatile subject which consists of the seven
arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, music and
dance, literature, theater and cinema. These
seven arts are the branches of learning that will
help you understand the human thought, feelings
and relations
×academic disciplines that study aspects of
human society and culture.
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It comes from the word “humanus” meaning
humane, cultured and refined.

To be human is to posses the qualities and

attributes of man and have the feelings and
dispositions proper to man.

It is also a study of the different cultural aspects

analyzes man’s frailties in life and how this can be
improved.

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 “Culture basically includes
speech, knowledge, beliefs, arts,
technologies, ideals and rules.
To be cultured means to be
refined and well-versed in the
arts, philosophy and languages.
It is also a means of
misunderstanding man and his
affairs.”

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 Art comes from Italian word
artis which means
“craftsmanship, skill, mastery of
form, inventiveness and the
association that exist between
form of ideas and between
material and techniques”

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 Art is very vital in our
daily existence. Arts are
the concrete evidences
in the study of
humanities.

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Etymology
The body of arts consists of
ideas, beliefs and values of the
past, present and even of the
future.
It comes from the The Latin terms
Aryan root word, “ARS” means
“AR” which means everything that is
to join or to put artificially made or
together. composed by man.
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Philosophy of Art

Art as Art as Art as Form

Representation:
Mimesis: copying Expression of -Emmanuel Kant
or imitation Emotional (1724-1804)
- Plato Content –
Romantic Movement

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For them…art is…
According to Leo To Aristotle, “art Socrates defines
Tolstoy, “art is a has no other end art as imitation.
means of union but itself. All arts He then declares
among all men, a are patterned on that it is very easy
means of nature. It is also to get perfect
communication.” the right reason imitations – by
for making means of mirrors.
things.”
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 Art is a Art is concerned Art is an attitude of
with the spirit, a state of
product of communication of mind-one which
man’s need to certain ideas and demands for its own
feelings by means of satisfaction and
express sensuous medium, fulfilling, a shaping
himself color, sound, bronze, of matter to new
marble, words and and more significant
- F. Zulueta film - C. Sanchez form – John Dewey

Art is the skillful arrangement or

composition of some common but
significant qualities of nature such as
colors, sounds, lines, movements, words,
stones, wood, etc., to express human
feelings, emotions, or thoughts in a perfect
meaningful and enjoyable way
– Panizo and Rustia 12
Four common essentials of art:
1. Art must be 2. Art must be 3. Art must benefit
creative, not and satisfy man and
man-made man must make use
imitative
of art in practical
terms

4. Art is expressed through

a certain medium or
material by which the
artist communicates
himself to his fellows

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An Art in
the
Ancient
World
Art only meant using their bare
hands to produce something that
will be useful to one’s day-to-day-
life.
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ASSUMPTIONS OF ART.
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Assumptions of Art

Art is Art is not Art involves

universal nature experience

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 Galloping Wild Boar found in
the cave of Altamira, Spain
CAVE PAINTINGS: The
https://www.google.com.ph/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fww
w.visual-arts-cork.com%2Fimages-pictures%

“The humanities constitute one of the

oldest and most important means of
expression developed by man.”
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Art has always
been timeless
and universal.

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 The Iliad tells the story of the
Greek struggle to rescue
Helen, a Greek queen, from
her Trojan captors.
The Odyssey takes the fall of
the city of Troy as its starting
point and crafts a new epic
around the struggle of one of
those Greek warriors, the hero
Odysseus.

https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Odyssey-Fall-River- 19
Classics/dp/1435152999
 In the Philippines:

 Jose Rizal and Francisco

Balagtas works
 Florante at Laura
 Ibong Adarna
 Psalms
 Kundiman

https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Odyssey-Fall-River- 20
Classics/dp/1435152999
Misconceptions
 People feel that what is
considered artistic are only
those which have been made
long time ago.
 Art is similar with nature

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 https://yandex.by/collections/card/5b475acf467d08004f
3cd876/
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https://www.learning-mind.com/this-surrealist-painter-
creates-amazing-optical-illusions/
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https://arttisa.com/product/imaginary-painting/
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https://www.learning-mind.com/this-surrealist-painter-
creates-amazing-optical-illusions/
http://home.bt.com/news/science-news/can-you-spot-these-hidden-images-
in-magic-eye-illusions-11364107993380
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Thank you!
Any questions?

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